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Low Tech Options for Reducing our Continued Dependence on Foreign Oil

past few months, the exorbitantly high prices we have been forced to pay at the pump in that last year remind us that depending on...

Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil in the Transportation Industry

of Georgia, a hazardous mission of which most Americans are totally ignorant; American sailors patrol the Persian Gulf, the South ...

Oil and World Politics

as though the U.S. seems to want control over much of the energy -- as evidenced by whats going on in Russia now. When Russian Pre...

Economic Policy Management

In effect this gives the average business or family more money that they can spend (disposable income) as they are paying less...

Questions on North American Petroleum Dependency

sixty percent of the current U.S. oil demands (Roberts, 2008). With the price of oil moving upward of $130 US dollars...

Culture in India

(India, 2007). The cabinet is "appointed by the president on the recommendation of the prime minister"; the president is elected "...

Culture of China

voted against him, 4 abstained, and 38 did not vote); ZENG Qinghong elected vice president ... with a total of 2,578 votes (177 de...

The Hanson PLC Break Up

By 1991, some of Hansons holdings included SCM, Kaiser Cement, Walter Kidde and Berec, the former manufacturer of Ever Ready Batte...

Assessment of the Options for Guillermo Furniture Using Net Present Value

present different scenarios, one tool that can be very useful in assessing the performance of the firm is the net present value te...

Assessing Guillermo Furniture Investment Alternatives

looks at the net revenue which is produced by investment, and assess is how long it would take for the initial capital investment ...

Twenty First Century High Tech Markets and Low Skills

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has predicted that by the year 2006 computer-related jobs in this country will have reached a total...

Environmental and Energy Tax Provisions

the fact that a "tax credit reduces tax dollar-for-dollar," while a deduction "only removes a percentage of the tax that is owed" ...

WACC and NPV for Gilliermo

option, a broker option with the final strategy being to retain the existing strategy, effectively making no changes. In order t...

"Option Four" By Ramesh Ponnuru: Review

plays a role in mandating its recognition as a union, will it automatically segue into an issue of rights that have been heretofor...

Comparison of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the womens circumstances and the move to change those circumstances. Rochesters dismissal of Antoinette, her family and her commun...

The Economics of Oil

looking at the macroeconomic impact of oil during the oil shock of the 1970s and the more resent oil crisis the highly complex inf...

CASE STUDY: PLAS TECH

shy violet, took charge in Williams absence and made decisions that department heads and the supervisors should have made. She was...

Oil Production Questions

would reduce the delays in the process, possibly by a considerable level (Marathon, 2010). Tools such as pumps within the pipeline...

Call and Put Options

the amount of goods will be in standard amounts and the delivery terms will be identical throughout all the contracts (Grossman, 1...

Foreign Policy of Indonesia

The colonisation of the Indonesia may be seen as starting with the establishment of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1602, an...

Globalization and Security of the United States

Gulf. In contrast, the countries of Western Europe account for 23 percent of the demand for Mideast oil, Japan for 73 percent (Pe...

Acme Expands to Germany

bank loans from a United States bank or a German or Euro Bank. Corporate bonds are bonds issued by the company and give the hold...

Greenhouse Effect Reduction

In eight pages this paper examines the causes and problems associated with the greenhouse effect and also considers alternative ap...

The Changing Middle East and the Feasibility of Trade

This 7 page paper discusses changes that have taken place in the Middle East with regard to their impact on international trade in...

Running For A Seat In the U.S. House Of Representatives

will be addressing political concerns as opposed to focusing upon the war being waged between Democrats and Republicans. Th...

Easton Bell Inc., Dealing With Forgiven Currency Exchange Rate Risks

are able to manage the supply chain to obtain lower prices on the goods that they sell. A master of this has been Nike with the ou...

Reducing Petroleum Dependence

discussed more fully below. The second consideration that must be made when contemplating how to reduce and mitigate the...

Is Substance Dependence A Physiological Or Psychological Phenomenon?

as a healthcare problem (Gorski, 1996). If it is a physiological condition that is highly likely that this will be classified as a...

Change Needed for Environmental Sustainability

are currently experiencing and which will continue to grow in their impact. Additional effects of fossil fuel dependence are even...

Psychological Dependence and Drug Abuse

craving for the drug (Edlin & Golanty, 2009). Someone who has never taken a recreational drug can understand what a craving is lik...